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Liu Dao
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Liu Dao is a Shanghai-based art collective whose spirit and purpose behind all art pieces, literary contributions, and exhibitions is collaboration. The group places emphasis on interaction in order to engage artists and art lovers in the process of creating and experiencing art focusing on collective rather than individual values, with the direct aim of removing the egocentrism and drive for fame that can be seen in misled young artists of Chinese contemporary art.
Due to the blossoming of new media and its involvement in new Chinese art, Liu Dao has recently been drawn to the idea that it’s becoming easier for artwork to have a narrative. One of the aims of Liu Dao is to make productions using the same process as the film industry, with cast and credits of people with different skills.
The arrangement of Liu Dao is always open to adaptation but the essence of the current art group has six Chinese artists who come from different backgrounds but all have a passion for contemporary art or experience in technology-based artwork. Four directors guide and facilitate the creative flow between participants. Two engineers manage any technical difficulties and are able to skillfully construct a myriad of pieces in different mediums. Various other roles are filled by rotating contributors such as writers, camera operators, film editors, computer programmers, actors, dancers and choreographers.
Liu Dao occasionally features guest directors from outside China to help design installations and other projects, allowing an international and cross-cultural foundation for original ideas to be born from many sources of input rather than one, helping the artworks transcend the stagnancy that comes from an individual’s repetitive conceptual sequences to a mode of output which brings diversity to the works and higher sensitivity to the social and artistic influences in the global environment. |
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